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Rotoscoping

Hi,
I am looking to find out how to rotoscope a certain area of the frames of my videos, reagardless of the number of frames. Is anyone familiar on how to do so in Final Cut Express?
Thanks,
Ampaudi

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Posted on May 26, 2007 5:28 PM

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May 26, 2007 9:37 PM in response to ampaudi

i've considered doing this and the way i would do it is

1) freeze the frames you want to rotoscope
2) export them to photoshop or the gimp which is free and what i use
3) "cartoonize" them, which you won't be able to do incredibly well, but good enough i think.
4) put them back into your movie.

you do know this will take a very very long time right? i don't know about photoshop but if you use gimp you should be able to find a fu-script that will speed up the process. and as far as i know the software used for rotoscoping is owned solely by one company and they're not selling it.

hope i've helped,
steven

May 27, 2007 2:53 AM in response to Steven Busenlehner

I don't know whether it would achieve exactly the effect you want but a fast and dirty, poor man's version might be to play around with filters like the "Emboss, Find Edges, Posterize and Solarize" etc.

Occasionally I have found that an alternative effect can sometimes be more successful than the original one I envisaged - and a lot faster and cheaper.

Ian.

May 27, 2007 6:54 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

I was using this because I was using the Chroma Key to key out a black background. A part of the person in front of the camera was the the same color so it disappeared. Is there any other way that I can make that part of the image a little lighter without have to rotoscope it so it's the same color but just ignored?
Thanks again,
Ampaudi

Rotoscoping

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